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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test11, TSC cannot be used as a timesource.
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Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Saturday 06 December 2003 03:56 pm, Markku Savela wrote:
>>
>>>>From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
>>>>
>>>>On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Markku Savela wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I've seen some references to above problem, but no clear answer.
>>>>>The 'ntpd' is complaining a lot...
>>>>>
>>>>>I have ASUS P4S800. Here is some extracts from dmesg (I can provide
>>>>>more complete dump, if anyone wants something specific.)
>>>>
>>>>Does this only happen when running X11?
>>>
>>>Hmm.. possibly. When I boot single user, it does not appear to happen.
>>>
>>
>>Do you have an ACPI battery stat or thermal monitor apps running (I see
>>that you have ACPI active). Does it help it you increase the polling
>>interval? Too many systems spend too much time in SCI handler...
> 
> 
> Yes cat /proc/interrupts might also give some sort of rough indication.


It took over 3 days to trigger it on my system, so booting to  single 
user mode and waiting 5 minutes is not a good marker of deciding if 
that's the case or not.  Also, i dont have SCSI compiled in my kernel at 
all yet this happens. So that idea is out.


Here is my /proc/interrupts
            CPU0
   0:  426319022          XT-PIC  timer
   1:     409358          XT-PIC  i8042
   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
   5:          0          XT-PIC  acpi
   8:  136058006          XT-PIC  rtc
  11:   23497500          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth0, EMU10K1
  12:   25482865          XT-PIC  bttv0
  14:    1440279          XT-PIC  ide0
  15:     405600          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
LOC:  426178067
ERR:     554364
MIS:          0